give the bird
(Redirected from give someone the bird)
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give the bird (third-person singular simple present gives the bird, present participle giving the bird, simple past gave the bird, past participle given the bird)
- Synonym of flip the bird
- 1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Maverick (Tom Cruise):
- Keeping up foreign relations. You know, giving him the bird!
- (UK) To boo and jeer (at someone), especially to express displeasure at a performer.
- The crowd was giving the bird to the warm-up act.